More Topics

Weather Forecast

Forum News Service

Primary tabs

The Forum Communications News Service is the premier news wire service covering the Upper Midwest, including the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In addition to breaking and enterprise news, we offer a wide variety of sports, features, business, agriculture, outdoors and opinion content. For more information about the services we offer or to discuss content subscriptions, please contact us.

Twitter:

ForumNewsSVC

Contact Email

History

Author Content

By Chelsey Perkins/Brainerd Dispatch The Brainerd Police Department is warning area businesses and residents to look out for counterfeit $100 bills, several of which have been recovered this week. Investigator Craig Katzenberger said the department has received eight reports related to the counterfeit bills this week. Some were reported by businesses after attempted use and others were reported found on the ground by individuals.

By Robb Jeffries / Forum Despite procedural concerns and plenty of public outcry, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to issue a certificate of need for an Enbridge expansion project on an existing line in northern Minnesota. Phase 2 of the Line 67 Upgrade Project consists of building four new pump stations near existing Enbridge facilities, along with upgrading three pump stations approved in an earlier phase of the project in the Minnesota cities of Viking, Clearb

By Amy Chaffins/ Alexandria Echo Press Jac-e Challes of Alexandria had to break it to herself that she had cancer. Jac-e, a medical lab technician at Douglas County Hospital, was diagnosed with leukemia on May 27.“After talking with my co-workers about my symptoms and how I had been feeling, [they] encouraged me to have a complete blood count run.

By Mike Nowatzki / The Forum BISMARCK – A major oil pipeline that would cross the Missouri River twice in North Dakota as it carries crude from the Bakken oilfields to Illinois faces a fight from activists in Iowa but so far has largely flown under the radar here.

By Robb Jeffries Despite procedural concerns and plenty of public outcry, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to issue a certificate of need for an Enbridge expansion project on an existing line in northern Minnesota. Phase 2 of the Line 67 Upgrade Project consists of building four new pump stations near existing Enbridge facilit

The last defendant in a synthetic drug conspiracy case was sentenced Thursday in federal district court in Fargo to 20 years and six months in prison in what federal district Judge Ralph Erickson said was “one of the saddest, if not the saddest, cases this court has seen in 20 years.”

By Archie Ingersoll /The Forum FARGO — The mother of a North Dakota State College of Science student who disappeared from the school’s Wahpeton campus just before he was to graduate last spring believes her son was murdered. “His backpack was weighted down, and he was thrown in the river,” Tammy Sadek said Tuesday of her 20-year-old son, Andrew Sadek. His body was found in the Red River near Breckenridge, Minn., on June 27.